Out of Africa, Back to Africa!: African Religions at the intersection of mobilities, encounters, and entanglements

Prof. Dr. Afe Adogame, Princeton Theological Seminary

Keynote as part of the workshop Religion in Africa: Relations and Entanglements

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Religion in Africa: Relations and Entanglements

Jointly convened workshop by: The working group “Africa” of the German Association for the Study of Religion (DVRW), University of Tübingen’s Center for Religion, Culture and Society (CRCS), the Institute for the Study of Religions, and African Literary and Cultural Studies 

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Entanglements of colonial heritage and the sacred. The kabra (ancestor) mask in the Netherlands.

Dr. Markus Balkenhol, Mertens Instituut Amsterdam, Ethnology 

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The Healing of Wounds and the Power of Forgiveness: Why Must Theology Be Political?

Dr. Marcel Uwineza SJ, Hekima University College, Nairobi

in cooperation with the Practical Theology/ Faculty of Catholic Theology

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Global Bible: The Role of British and German Bible Societies in Nineteenth-Century Colonialism

PD Dr. Felicity Ann Jensz, University of Münster, Cluster of Excellence 2060 - Religion and Politics. Dynamics of Tradition and Innovation

in cooperation with the Department of Modern History

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PhD research and networking workshop

PhD students at the University of Tübingen, in the theologies as well as in the humanities, cultural and social sciences, who are researching religion-related topics

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27.05.2025

The Study of Religion: Pasts, Presents, & Futures

Tübingen-Toronto Workshop 2025

Two-day workshop, jointly organized by the Center for Religion, Culture, and Society (University of Tübingen) and the Department for the Study of Religion (University of Toronto)

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Jewish Studies – Anti-Semitism Research – Israel Studies in Germany: Interconnections and Separations

The workshop will focus on the self-image and mutual relationship of the aforementioned disciplines, as well as the historical and contemporary social, political, and academic dynamics that shape these disciplines individually and in their interaction with one another.

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Convenience, Conflict and Collaboration in the Age of Convergence

Prof. Dr. Brian Catlos,University of Colorado Boulder, Director of CU Mediterranean Studies Group Religious Studies

Immanent Power in Cultural Encounter: Kongo 1480-1520 and global patterns of ruler conversion

Dr. Alan Strathern, Oxford University, Associate Professor in History

Cooperation with the Department of Modern History

(Non-)Reproductive Matters: Global Perspectives on Religion, Gender and Procreation - International conference

with keynotes by Prof. Dr. Nancy Ammerman and civil rights activist Lecia Brooks

in cooperation with the Center for Gender and Diversity Research, the Center for Methodology and the Chair of “Rethinking Global Religion”

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Historicizing the Legendary Pre-Islamic Arabia through the Epigraphic Record

Dr. Hythem Sidky,Executive Director of the International Qur’anic Studies Association

in Cooperation with the ERC-Projekt QaSLA

The earthquake in northern Syria and southern Turkey and its impact on the interreligious culture of Hatay

Prof. Dr. Jens Kreinath,Wichita State University, Department of Anthropology

The Rise of Values and the Future of Religion

Prof. Dr. Linda Woodhead, King's College London, Head of Department, Theology & Religious Studies

PhD networking workshop

PhD students of the University of Tübingen (Theologies, Religious Studies, Political Science, Empirical Cultural Studies)

Politics and Secrecy at a Sri Lankan National Heritage Site

Prof. Dr. Frank J. Korom, Boston University, Department of Religion

Cooperation with Religious Studies & AOI

Reflections on Memory, Extractivism, and Religion in the Anthropocene

Prof. Dr. Dipesh Chakrabarty,University of Chicago, Department of History

Cooperation with the Department of Dogmatics, Faculty of Catholic Theology

Disability rights and reproductive rights - Germany in the summer of 1989

Prof. Dr. Dagmar Herzog, Distinguished Professor of History und Daniel Rose Faculty Scholar am Graduate Center der City University of New York

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Remediation, Providence and Memory: The Toxic Heritage of Gold Rushes in the British Empire

Prof. Dr. Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion

Religion and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

Prof. Dr. Catherine Wanner, Penn State University, Professor of History, Anthropology and Religious Studies

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Making Sense of Interreligious Practices

Lea Stolz und Lea Schlenker, Faculty of Protestant Theology & ZITh

Ancestors and the Postcolony. Memory, spirits and healing

AR Dr. Katharina Wilkens, Department of Religious Studies

From the 'Mass of all times' to the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council or: How an external cultural studies perspective can help theology on its way

Prof. Dr. Johanna Rahner, Chair of Dogmatics and History of Dogma, Faculty of Catholic Theology

Is this Ironic? Theoretical Insights from the Pre-Modern Islamic Qur’an Commentary Tradition

Dr. Shuaib Ally, Institute of Islamic Studies at McGill University

Decoding Atheistic Knowledge: The Ambiguous Path to Secularization in Communist Czechoslovakia

Dr. Martin Pácha, Eastern European history and regional studies

Judaism as religion or as politea in early rabbinic literature: implications for 'orthodoxy' and toleration

Dr. Daniel H. Weiss, Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Cambridge; Humboldt Fellow at the Faculty of Protestant Theology, University of Tübingen

Canonizations à la russe: the historical policy of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 21st century

Dr. Oleg Morozov, Visiting researcher SFB “Threatened Orders”, Institute for Eastern European History and Regional Studies

Being Catholic in the Federal Republic of Germany: Semantics, Practices, Emotions in West German Society 1965-1989/90

Prof. Dr. Andrea Holzem, Professor of Medieval and Modern Church History at the Faculty of Catholic Theology

Violence against Jews. Perspectives from the Latin-Christian and Islamic spheres

JProf. Dr. Theresa Jäckh, Junior Professor of Medieval History with a focus on the Mediterranean and the Middle East

Universal history as a diagram. The 'Compendium historiae' of Peter of Poitiers

Prof. Dr. Andrea Worm, Director of the Institute of Art History at the University of Tübingen and Professor of Art History with a focus on the Middle Ages

Figurations of the national in the pre-modern era

PD Dr. Christian Witt, Chair of Church History of the Protestant Faculty

Avicenna and Averroës as two paradigms of the history of philosophy in Islam

Prof. Dr. Heidrun Eichner, Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Tübingen

On the competition between religious and scientific interpretations of history using the example of (neo-)paganism in England

Prof. Dr. Isabel Laack, Professor of Religious Studies and Non-European History of Religions, Faculty of Humanities

The Qur'an as a Source for Late Antiquity (QaSLA) - Vorstellung eines neuen Forschungsprojekts in Tübingen

Prof. Dr. Holger Zellentin, Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, Faculty of Protestant Theology

Jesuit mission in China

Prof. Dr. Johannes Brachtendorf, Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag
Professor of Philosophical Foundations of Theology, Faculty of Catholic Theology
Professor of Chinese Language, Literature and Philosophy at the Department of Sinology, Faculty of Philosophy

Belonging in contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Prof. Dr. Monika Schrimpf, Professor of Japanese Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Holy violence or constructive dialog - On the ambivalence of religions in armed conflicts

Prof. Dr. Andreas Hasenclever, Professor of Peace Research and International Politics; Institute of Political Science, Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences

Minority rights are not a solution for Muslims in Europe

Prof. Dr. Mouez Khalfaoui, Professor of Islamic Law, Center for Islamic Theology

Instruction and commitment: the humanity of man in rabbinic thought

Dr. Asher Mattern, Institute for Ecumenical and Interreligious Research, Faculty of Catholic Theology

Liturgization and hypersacralization in Constantinople in the 3rd-8th centuries

Prof. Dr. Mischa Meier, Professor of Ancient History, Faculty of Philosophy

The Theatrical King: Staging Civic Religion from the English Monarchy to the American Presidency

Dr. Dan Poston, Postdoctoral Fellow; English Department, Faculty of Philosophy

The heavenly ruler and his state - on the sacrality of the Japanese Tennô

Prof. Dr. Klaus Antoni, Chair of Japanese Studies, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, Faculty of Humanities

Jewish Philosophy Beyond the Nation-State

Prof. Dr. Yaniv Feller, Humboldt Fellow at the Ludwig Uhland Institute; Wesleyan University Middletown, USA

Imperialism, globalization and the search for the origins of monotheism: the case of Martin Haug (1827-1876)

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Maier, Professor of General Religious Studies and European History of Religions, Faculty of Humanities